Get Free: A Summer Program For Queer and Trans Youth of Color

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This summer in Oakland, CA, (June 24 – June 30, 2015) Black Girl Dangerous presents our 2nd annual week-long artistic, intellectual, emotional and practical program for queer and trans* youth of color that focuses on the inner work it takes to Get Free in a world where, for us—people who experience oppression based on race and queerness or trans*ness—just surviving is a feat. Through writing, dreaming, screaming, owning up, and facing who we are, who we have been, and who we might become, we aim to start an emotional r/evolution that will reverberate throughout our lives and our communities.

This FREE, week-long program will include daily workshops, creative projects, discussions, confessions and solutions re:

Taking steps toward healing our own individual trauma so that we can come together in healthier ways

Treating each other better, causing less harm, and being accountable to each other for the harm we do cause

Speaking truth about, and pushing back against, racism, misogyny, ableism, and various other forms of oppression within QTPOC communities

and more.

Black Girl Dangerous is committed to amplifying the voices of queer and trans* people of color and that includes doing everything we can to help our people find their voices. We believe that finding your voice requires looking inward with courage, clarity and compassion. We believe that looking inward is the first step towards getting FREE.

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BGD will select 10 to 12 queer and trans youth of color to participate in our 2nd annual program.

To participate in this program, you must be ALL of the following:

between the ages of 16 and 21 (on June 24, 2015)

and a person of color who experiences oppression based on race

and someone who identifies as queer and/or trans* (even if you use other words for it)

The program is FREE. Workshops, lodging and food will be covered by Black Girl Dangerous (in collaboration with our community and with the support of our donors). Scholarships are available to help cover travel costs to Oakland, CA.